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Nehemiah 5:1
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Nehemiah Deals with Oppression

1 And there was a great aoutcry of the people and their wives against their bJewish brethren.  
2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 There were also some who said, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”
4 There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards.
5 Yet now aour flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we bare forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”  
Verse Comparison: Nehemiah 5:1

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American Standard Version
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Amplified® Bible
NOW THERE arose a great cry of the [poor] people and of their wives [driven to borrowing] against their Jewish brethren [the few who could afford to lend].

Contemporary English Version
Some of the men and their wives complained about the Jews in power

Darby English Version
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Good News Bible
Some time later many of the people, both men and women, began to complain against the other Jews.

King James Version
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

New American Standard Bible
Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

New International Version
Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers.

New King James Version
And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

Revised Standard Version
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brethren.

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,


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